Character Analysis: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Mohaiminul Islam
Professor Stephen Calebotta
English 475
13 February 2017
Essay 3, Prompt 10
In the past few weeks, I watched several episodes from the TV show called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” written by Joss Whedon. Out of the many episodes, season 5 episode 7 “Fool for Love” was one of the best episodes. In this episode, Spike’s origin is being revealed for the first time and it shows the transformation of his life. In addition, it showcases how rejection played a pivotal role of him transitioning from being a shy, unsuccessful poet into a monster. Even though he is a monster but he is Fool for Love. The plot of this episode, decent visual effects, violence, side character performance, theme, sound effect was perfect to me and my personal …show more content…
James Marsters, who played as Spike, was such a believable and likable character. His performance was spot on. It was really fun and interesting to watch how Spike changed during the flashbacks such as his look, accent, and attitude. It's interesting that Slayer and Vampire relationship completely opposite but Spike agreed to share his last battle experience with Slayer. Other than telling his story, he gives advice to Buffy that a Slayer always must reach for her weapon and each of the Slayers died from a single …show more content…
So, he ends up comforting her and offering her help with anything to make it all better. In that moment, I realized that the title of the episode, “Fool for Love” was a perfect match. I felt that it was impactful because even though William transitioned into becoming Spike, he still had a part of who he was and it is something that he could not change.
My favorite part of this entire episode is when Spike describe how he killed the second Slayer on the subway. He compares that Slayer to Buffy and told her they had a similar fighting style. In order for the point to be proven, Joss Weldon showcases the fighting scene between Spike and the Slayer on the subway and between Spike and Buffy. It showed the same action but different time and location. Therefore, it showed how the flashback fight scene and the present fight scene merged together beautifully. In this episode, I noticed that all of the previous Slayers were female. Joss Whedon implemented an Asian and a Black character as a Slayer in this episode, but not any male character. Why are all chosen Slayers female? I don't know what is the reason behind it but out of the many episodes, “Fool for Love” was definitely one to remember because of its strong
Professor Stephen Calebotta
English 475
13 February 2017
Essay 3, Prompt 10
In the past few weeks, I watched several episodes from the TV show called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” written by Joss Whedon. Out of the many episodes, season 5 episode 7 “Fool for Love” was one of the best episodes. In this episode, Spike’s origin is being revealed for the first time and it shows the transformation of his life. In addition, it showcases how rejection played a pivotal role of him transitioning from being a shy, unsuccessful poet into a monster. Even though he is a monster but he is Fool for Love. The plot of this episode, decent visual effects, violence, side character performance, theme, sound effect was perfect to me and my personal …show more content…
James Marsters, who played as Spike, was such a believable and likable character. His performance was spot on. It was really fun and interesting to watch how Spike changed during the flashbacks such as his look, accent, and attitude. It's interesting that Slayer and Vampire relationship completely opposite but Spike agreed to share his last battle experience with Slayer. Other than telling his story, he gives advice to Buffy that a Slayer always must reach for her weapon and each of the Slayers died from a single …show more content…
So, he ends up comforting her and offering her help with anything to make it all better. In that moment, I realized that the title of the episode, “Fool for Love” was a perfect match. I felt that it was impactful because even though William transitioned into becoming Spike, he still had a part of who he was and it is something that he could not change.
My favorite part of this entire episode is when Spike describe how he killed the second Slayer on the subway. He compares that Slayer to Buffy and told her they had a similar fighting style. In order for the point to be proven, Joss Weldon showcases the fighting scene between Spike and the Slayer on the subway and between Spike and Buffy. It showed the same action but different time and location. Therefore, it showed how the flashback fight scene and the present fight scene merged together beautifully. In this episode, I noticed that all of the previous Slayers were female. Joss Whedon implemented an Asian and a Black character as a Slayer in this episode, but not any male character. Why are all chosen Slayers female? I don't know what is the reason behind it but out of the many episodes, “Fool for Love” was definitely one to remember because of its strong